Catholic Church

Vatican to build $148m renewable energy plant, sources say

The power plant will be built at the Vatican-owned Santa Maria di Galeria estate on Rome’s north-western outskirts.

Israel military closes Palestinian Christian village Taybeh, citing settler attacks

Israeli settlers putting out a fire by a settler outpost, near the Palestinian town Taybeh in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on July 17, 2026.

Second Chinese bishop in a week ordained under Vatican-Beijing deal

Francis Xavier Duan Yongkun, 45, was ordained Coadjutor Bishop of Bameng, in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region, on July 29, after Pope Leo (above) approved his candidacy in June 2026.

Woman seriously injured in knife attack during church service in Ireland

Catholic order faces financial ruin in Australia over abuse claims

Excommunications show a Pope Leo unafraid of making firm decisions

Pope Leo waving after leading the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on June 29.

What to know about Society of St Pius X, the Catholic traditionalists in new schism

Priests receiving episcopal consecration during a pontifical mass organised by Society of Saint Pius X in Econe, Switzerland, on July 1.

Members of rebel Catholic group in schism, excommunicated: Vatican

The Vatican on July 2 said the two bishops who led the unauthorised ordination had been excommunicated, along with the four priests who had become new bishops.

Rebel Catholic group’s forbidden ordinations caused ‘schism’, Vatican cardinal says

Priests receive blessings from newly ordained priests, after an ordination ceremony of the traditionalist Catholic Society of St Pius X, in Econe, near Sion, western Switzerland, on June 29. Defying Vatican, Society of St Pius X ordained its own bishops on July 1, 2026.

Papal envoy presides over first Vietnam beatification rite

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle (centre) attending the beatification mass for Vietnamese Catholic priest Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep in Vietnam on July 2.

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